The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.